The process of industrialization in the swine industry has been written about extensively in recent years by Grimes, Barkema and Cook, Hurt, Rhodes, Boehlje and Schrader and others. The purpose of this paper is to concentrate on the pricing issues that have arisen during this process of industrialization. These issues include the diminishing role of open competitive markets and the increasing r...

In this paper, we attempt to investigate how the value chain is configured in several international supply networks and identify the implications that supply network configuration decisions bring to the operation of the network. The aspects of configuration investigated here including allocation of value chain activities including: research and development, procurement, manufacturing, distribut...

Improved sanitation access is extremely low in rural Cambodia. Non-governmental organizations have helped build local supply side latrine markets to promote household latrine purchase and use, but households cite inability to pay as a key barrier to purchase. To examine the extent to which microfinance can be used to facilitate household investment in sanitation, we applied a twopronged assessm...

This paper proposes a domain statement for strategic marketing as a field of study and delineates certain issues fundamental to the field. It also proposes a definition for marketing strategy, the focal organizational strategy construct of the field, and enumerates a number of foundational premises of marketing strategy. The domain of strategic marketing is viewed as encompassing the study of o...

one of the most important requirements of developing appropriate strategies for international marketing is correct identification of target markets. using quantitative techniques and decision making skills will lead to better results regarding the evaluation of marketing strategies. in this study, first we have used internal factor evaluation (ife) matrix for recognizing and comparing strengths...